Luka Cvetković is an artist working across video, performance, text, and publishing. His practice challenges dominant subjectivities and power dynamics within and beyond art, engaging aesthetics, philosophy, and politics. He collaborates with artists and theorists exploring non-normative ontologies and critical temporalities beyond human exceptionalism. Luka has exhibited across Europe, received multiple awards, and was a special lecturer at UAL (2021). Based in Belgrade, he co-runs the Identity Crisis Network a research project connecting artistic practices and discourses that de-stabilize fixed notions of identity and subjectivity.
Education
2020–2022 MA (Work.Master), Contemporary Artistic Practice, HEAD – Genève (CH)
2018–2019 MA, Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade (RS)
2014–2018 BA, Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade (RS)
Solo shows / Selection
2025 Non-Perspectives, Tulla Culture, Tirana (AL)
2023 The Perfect Ikea Living Room, Foyer Contemporary, Copenhagen (DK)
Not Giving Up on Humans, One Night Stand Gallery, Sofia (BG)
2022 news! , Lokal-int, Biel (CH)
2021 LAMB ( History always begins with you) , LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (XK)
2020 Honey I’m Home, Belgrade youth centre, Belgrade (RS)
Group Shows / Selection
2026 around every circle another can be drawn, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana (SL)
Brieftopia: Art Between Crisis and Imagiantion, 26th Biennial of Contemporary Art, Gabrovo (BG)
2025 Homeward, ArtHouse Shkodra, Shkoder (AL)
Discovery and otherness in the age of 5.0, BUNA Varna (BG)
Borderlands, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (UK)
2024 The unheard sounds, Sigma_Space and Foyer 42, Basel (CH)
2023 Utopias Lahti, Biennal of Contemporary Art, Lahti (FL)
Plattform23, Espace Arlaud, Laussane (CH)
2022 Jungkunst, Kunsthalle 53, Winterthur (CH)
The Initial Sign of Good, Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice (PL)
Sehnerv Medienkunstpreise, Cinema REX, Bern (CH)
ICIA nternational Competition for Intermedia Artwork, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków (PL)
rafinerymonestery, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Pancevo (RS)
Parazites, Biennial of Young Artists, HDLU Pavillion, Zagreb (HR)
2021 Convergent Acts, Gallery Nosco, Bruxelles (BE)
MANGELOS award (YVAA) , Remont Gallery, Belgrade (RS),
2020 Vistula is burning, National Gallery Krakow, (PL)
2019 1999 – The Oracle told me I’d fall in love with the One, Fotopub festival, Novo Mesto (SL)
Self-upbringing: Scene Work Ahead, Prague Quadrennial (CZ)
In touch with, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (RS)
2018 Likovna Jesen, Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Sombor (RS)
Awards, Grants and Scholarships
2026 Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant
2022 – 2024 The New Centre for Research and Practice scholarship
2022 Shortlisted, SEHNERV Media Art Prize, Video Art category, Bern (CH)
2021 Shortlisted, Mangelos Award (YVAA), Remont Gallery, Belgrade (RS)
2021 Dositeja Fund scholarship (RS)
2020 – 2022 Hans Wilsdorf Foundation scholarship (CH)
2019 First prize, Fotopub festival, Novo Mesto (SI)
2018 Award for creative innovation, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (RS)
2017 First prize for metal sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (RS)
2015 – 2019 State scholarship (RS)
Projects / Residencies
2026 The Eastern Balkan Institute residency, Sofia (BL)
2025 Identity Crisis Network Conference, MSU Zagreb (CR)
2024 Identity Crisis Network Seminars, Online Discoursive program
2024 – Identity Crisis Network, co-founder, research project (CEE)
2024 Shkodra ArtHouse residency, Tirana (AL)
2023 The Eastern Balkan Institute residency, Sofia (BL)
2022 – 2026 Researcher at The New Centre, Michigan (USA)
2022 When the Museum is Closed — project realized with the Museum of Art and History (MAH), Geneva (CH)
2021 Special Lecturer, student-led programe, University of Arts London, (UK)
2020 – 2021 MAGMA magazine, co-founder and editor, HEAD Geneve (CH)
2018 – 2020 The Applause Institute, co – founder, Belgrade (RS)
2019 Crowd in the city, curatorial project, City Gallery, Belgrade (RS)
2018 – 2019 Open Studio Day, co – founder, Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade (RS)
Public Collections
2017 Gift, Zepter Museum, Belgrade (RS)
Bibliography and published articles
2026 Deprivatization: On Post-Subjective Aesthetics, Hyperspekulation
LAMB, Vasil Vladimirov, ETC Magazine issue 5 (SLO)
2025 Not Giving Up On Humans , HO_MAG (IT)
Two Futures, TripleAmpersand Journal, The New Centre
Light Technician, Scenographer, Audience Member, Fora Magazine, Tirana (AL)
Homeward, letteralmente verso casa – Exibart (IT)
Whose game? — Impressions from Identity Crisis Network Conference, Natalija Paunić, Loophole (RS)
Identity Crisis Network, Kultupunkt (CRO)
Identity Crisis Network Conference, KUĆĆA & Luka, HRT4 (CRO)
Identity has become a tool in political struggles, Vera Zalutskaya, Michalina Sablik, Culture.pl (PL)
The necessity of knowing and the task of non-knowing, ArtHouse Shkodra Publishing (AL)
2024 Kisses lost in contingency, Mårten Spångberg, OB/scene festival, South Korea (ROK)
Good times, TripleAmpersand Journal, The New Centre
Balkan Baroque e l’Arte di Sopravvivere, Daniela Crnogorac, Universita di Bologna (IT)
2023 Dangerous and with small steps, KUĆĆA, KUNSTFORUM vol.293 Parasitic Paradoxes (DE) ,
Not Giving Up On Humans, TripleAmpersand Journal, The New Centre
A Found Lamb, Maja Ćirić , LITERARY MAGAZINE THREE ISSUE 231-232-233, Belgrade (RS)
2022 LAMB, history always begins with you, VIDEOKUNST CH, Bern (CH)
On Luka Cvetkovic’s LAMB, Mårten Spångberg, Medium Sans, Geneve (CH)
rafinerymonestery, fuel prayer, Maja Ćirić, the 20th Biennial of Art Panchevo (RS)
Alterum, Kajet Journal (EE)
2021 Between Powerlesness and Potentiality, Lecture at UAL, London (UK)
MANGELOS Award, Miroslav Karić, Remont, Beograd (RS)
Porosity of critique – Embodying the institution: from non-other to subject, Maja Ćirić, Kulturpunkt publishing, Zagreb (CRO)
Joseph Beuys and Mangelos – 100 years and art today , U10 Belgrade, (RS)
2020 The Undercurrents of Anxiety, Marta Lisok, Krakow (PL)
The Vistula is burning. How do artists see the future on Earth? , Contemporary Lynx (PL)
2019 Guzva u Gradu, SeeCult (RS) Guzva u Gradu, RadioAparat (RS)
Druzbeno-Politicni rituali, Mladina, Ljubljana (SLO)
Giovane arte in Slovenia. Reportage da Fotopub, Niccolò Lucarelli, Art Tribune, (IT)
1999-The Oracle Told Me I’d Fall in Love with the One, East Topics (EE)
Scene Work Ahead, pg. 421, Serbian Pavilion at Prague Quadrennial (CZ)